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Fred Allen’s Much Ado about Me

Book Review Title: Much Ado About Me Author: Fred Allen Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Date: 1956 Fred Allen’s autobiographical Much Ado About Me serves up a smorgasbord of early-twentieth-century images and idioms that will satisfy anyone interested in the … Continue reading

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Robert Sherman’s Autobiography Chapters of My Life

Book Review Title: Moose: Chapters From My Life Author: Robert B. Sherman Publisher: AuthorHouseUK Date: November 27, 2013 Chapters from My Life is a compelling page-turner to say the least. Sherman was born in 1925, a member of the “Greatest … Continue reading

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Simon Callow’s “Alternative Autobiography” My Life in Pieces

Book Review Title: My Life in Pieces Author: Simon Callow Publisher: Nick Hern Books Date: May 17, 2011 Simon Callow’s “Alternative Autobiography” My Life in Pieces was one of the most exciting books I’ve read in a long time. Hearing … Continue reading

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Dick Van Dyke’s Autobiography

Book Review Title: My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business Author: Dick Van Dyke Publisher: Three Rivers Press (May 15, 2012) Dick Van Dyke’s autobiography My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business provides a delightful retrospective … Continue reading

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Simon Callow’s Biography of Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World

Book Review Title: Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World Author: Simon Callow Published: Vintage 2012 Perhaps no one alive today has done more to shine a light on Charles Dickens, the man and his works, than Simon … Continue reading

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World Chess Champion Mikhail Tal’s Autobiography

Book Review Title: The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal Author: Mikhail Tal Publisher: Everyman Chess (London) Date: 1997, 2015 Mikhail Tal’s autobiography is in the form of an interview,

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Lock and Dixon’s Biography of Patrick Brontë: Man of Sorrow

Book Review Title: A Man of Sorrow: The Life, Letters and Times of the Rev. Patrick Brontë 1777–1861, 566 pages Authors: John Lock and Canon W. T. Dixon Publisher: Ian Hodgkins & Co. LTD, London (1979) ISBN-13: 978-0906460047 Patrick Brontë … Continue reading

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Book Review of Henry Adams’ The Education of Henry Adams

Book Review Title: The Education of Henry Adams Author: Henry Adams Published: Modern Library 1931. Originally published 1918. Privately circulated 1907 Last December I wrote about Adams’ earlier work, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, which I recommended for its rich blend of … Continue reading

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The Albert Effect

People have all kinds of mentors and role models. Here is a good one from the nineteenth century.

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Oscar Wilde: After Hard Labor

Although for some fifteen years Wilde enjoyed celebrity and critical acclaim, he became anathema to the world before his death—and posterity has been only a little kinder. Wilde’s development of Walter Pater’s aestheticism was discredited, just as Wilde was relegated … Continue reading

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Book Review of Michael Holroyd’s Revised Biography of Lytton Strachey

Lytton Strachey: The New Biography By Michael Holroyd Illustrated. 780 pages. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Also available in paperback from Farrar, Straus & Giroux’s Noonday Press. Holroyd has at least two good reasons for rewriting Strachey’s biography. (The … Continue reading

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